The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data underlying the unemployment rate can help in assessing which labor market ...

In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human ...

Bloomberg Opinion columnists looked at data for nine American institutions, like government, science, and big business, to get to the heart of the country’s crisis of trust. When trust collapses, what ...

A pioneering scholarly review of 1 million EV charging station consumer reviews, led by a Harvard Business School fellow, reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the current state of EV charging ...

The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- There's some good and bad news when it comes to your commute, the decrease in remote work is leading to a spike in commuters. Here in the Bay Area, three Bay Area cities were ...

Apprentices learn how to plaster at a trade school in Auburndale, Massachusetts. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to better ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

Oct. 1, 2024 — Charles Dickens, the famous 19th-century British novelist, believed that "the best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.” Modern science backs him up.

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 4, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Fertility rates in the United States are near historic lows. One reason is a sharp decline ...

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